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...Koba was Stalin's pseudonym as a revolutionist in his younger days...
...knew and liked boys. When a local minister asked him to take over the church Boy Scout troop, he was happy to agree. Now, 20 years later, he has published the results of that decision in a new book called Be Prepared!* (Sloane, $3.50). Though he writes under a pseudonym (he is now an NBC scriptwriter) and keeps his town anonymous, Cochran manages to paint a lively, hair-raising picture of what it is like to be one of the most bothered and bewildered of U.S. educators-a scoutmaster...
When Poet George William Russell was a young man in Victorian Dublin, he wrote a philosophic article under the pseudonym "Æon." The printer mangled it, and Æon came out Æ. For the rest of his life, Russell wrote under that diphthong. Outdistanced as a poet by such contemporaries as Thomas Hardy and William Butler Yeats, Æ culled through his verses not long before his death (in 1935) and selected 124 that he hoped he might be remembered for. Last week his Selected Poems achieved the semiclassic permanence of republication in the Golden Treasury Series (Macmillan; $1.25), along with...
Died. Charles Fulton Oursler, 59, best-selling author (The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Greatest Book Ever Written), newspaper columnist ("A Modern Parable" in 65 papers), playwright (The Spider), whodunit writer (under the pseudonym Anthony Abbott), editor in chief (1931-42) of Liberty magazine, editorial, boss (1941) of all Macfadden Publications, and (since 1944) a senior editor of Reader's Digest; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Once an agnostic, Oursler visited Palestine in 1935 and wrote A Skeptic in the Holy Land ("I started out being very skeptical, but in the last chapter I was nearly converted"). Eight...
Chambers' next boss in the underground was a Hungarian Communist, J. Peters, who switched Chamber' party pseudonym from Bob to Carl and shifted him from New York to Washington. To Chambers, Peters "enlarged on the party's organizational and human resources in Washington, mentioning, among others, the man whose name he always pronounced 'Awl-jur'-with a kind of drawling pleasure, for he took an almost parental pride in Alger Hiss. Then, with a little inclusive wave of his pudgy hand, he summed up. 'Even in Germany under the Weimar Republic,' said Peters...